The Collapse of Public Education [Infographic]

Want to know how cuts in early education affect students in the long run? This infographic spells it out for you.

Just how important is your child's education? With budget cuts becoming the new normal, it seems like every year we grow accustomed to expecting less and less from our children's schools while asking otherwise great teachers to perform miracles in education with fewer and fewer resources.

While I wouldn't go so far to say that the public education system is collapsing - as this infographic from Online Universities implies- I do think that it is failing American's kids. And this graphic does an excellent job of showing how cuts to programs in early education translate into smaller salaries for the kids who manage to graduate.

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